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Dell Boomi™ (Boomi) announced the availability of the Fall 2017 release of Boomi’s flagship cloud integration technology. The release adds new integration accelerators, and features to fortify data insights, security and compliance.

Delphix, the company that has changed the dynamics of managing and consuming data, announced integration of the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) into its core platform. Enterprises can now look to the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform (DDDP) to quickly and securely manage data for workloads running on Amazon RDS, in addition to workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and other cloud solutions.

In this contributed article, Misha Ghosh, GM & DVP at ADP Ventures, Big Data, discusses several key areas where timely and accurate big data can make an impact on the real estate industry. There are many tools that draw from public and private sources that aggregate and anonymize information, creating “big data” sets to help identify market trends in home-building or growth in commercial space demand, on an annualized basis.

AtScale announced the availability of a universal semantic platform for business intelligence (BI) with Microsoft Azure HDInsight. With this offering, in one click, enterprises gain faster time to insight by deploying Big Data Analytics on Azure in minutes, and benefit from an enhanced ROI by running production-ready workloads on the productive and intelligent Azure cloud platform.

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), a leading data and analytics company, announced Teradata IntelliSphere™, a comprehensive software portfolio that unlocks a wealth of key capabilities for enterprises to leverage all the core software required to ingest, access, deploy and manage a flexible analytical ecosystem.

DriveScale, the leader in delivering Software Composable Infrastructure (SCI) for modern workloads, announced a new release of the DriveScale System. The latest enhancements include support for encryption of data at rest and in transit, along with support for data disposition and shredding. The new release provides enterprises with the security features they need to ensure their customer, personnel or other sensitive information is protected and safe from unauthorized viewing.

In this special guest feature, Gavin Robertson, CTO and SVP of WhamTech, discusses the future technology of data federation and protection within federal agencies. These new technologies could have a profound positive impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of future government programs. The benefits will be significant, including cost savings, accelerated implementations, improved and new capabilities, leveraged existing IT investments, improved data security, flexible future options and increased stakeholder satisfaction.

Has your business ever tried to decide between a bare-metal environment or a container-based environment for dealing with Big Data needs? BlueData and Intel collaborated to discuss this very issue in a benchmark study of the performance of Big Data workloads.

In this special guest feature, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy and Architecture at MapR, explores different use cases that may be best run in the cloud versus on premises, points out opportunities to optimize cost and operational benefits, and explain how to get the data moved between locations.

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In this special guest feature, Brian D’alessandro, Director of Data Science at SparkBeyond, discusses how AI is a learning curve, and exploring opportunities within the technology further extends its potential to enable transformation and generate impact. It can shape workflows to drive efficiency and growth opportunities, while automating other workflows and create new business models. While AI empowers us with the ability to predict the future — we have the opportunity to change it. [READ MORE…]

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